Anthony Walsh

Anthony Walsh is an American criminologist and professor emeritus at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. He earned a B.A. in sociology from Eastern Michigan University in 1975, an M.A. in medical sociology from the University of Toledo in 1977, and a Ph.D. in criminology from Bowling Green State University in 1983. Before entering academia he worked in law enforcement for 21 years, including service as a probation officer in Lucas County, Ohio, joining the Boise State faculty in 1984. Walsh became known for developing biosocial approaches bridging biology and sociology in criminology, authoring works including Biosociology: An Emerging Paradigm (1995), Criminology: A Global Perspective (2000) and Biosociology: Bridging the Biology-Sociology Divide (2014), and he received the Tenured Research Award from Boise State University in 2008. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/